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Deliberative Democracy, Active Citizenship and Critical Culture: From Aristotle’s Rhetoric to Contemporary Political Philosophy

Francisco Arenas Dolz

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democracyCommunicationmedia_common.quotation_subjectRationalityActive citizenshipethicsDemocracylcsh:P87-96Epistemologylcsh:Communication. Mass mediaPoliticsDeliberative democracypolitical philosophyRhetoricRhetorical questionSociologyPolitical philosophycitizen participationcritical thinkingSocial sciencemoral educationmedia_common

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The aim of this paper is to defend an adequate reading of Aristotle´s deliberative rhetoric that allows us to understand practical rationalization as a process of interpretation of human actions. After the consideration of rhetoric as a general human ability that is indispensable for political coexistence, the impact of the Aristotelian rhetorical proposal is presented, not just as a defense of the importance of rhetoric in a democratic society, but also as a novel attempt to understand what it means to speak of practical rationality.

10.7195/ri14.v11i1.518https://icono14.net/ojs/index.php/icono14/article/view/518